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Activating and Managing Your Software License

You will have received an email from emoji trading containing your software license key, a long sequence of letters and numbers separated by dashes. If you lose this email you can also retrieve your key from the My Account dashboard on the emoji trading website within the Software License Keys area.

The software license key is required to activate the indicators. You can install the indicators on as many computers as you wish however the number of copies that may be used simultaneously depends upon your software license.

In order to use the indicators, you must first activate the software license. This is a one-time process. If you wish to use the indicators on a different computer, you must deactivate the license on the first computer and then activate it on the new computer. If you are unable to deactivate the license on your computer (e.g. it has failed or in no longer in your possession) then you can deactivate the license from the My Account dashboard on the emoji trading website within the Software License Keys area.

Trading Platform-Specific Instructions for Activating & Deactivating the Software License

Sierra Chart

Activation

  1. If you do not have an open chart, open an existing chart

  2. Add the emoji License Manager custom study to your chart

    Add the emoji License Manager custom study to the chart using Analysis>Studies>Add Custom Study
    You will find this as the first study within the emoji trading Free Indicator Sampler
    Select the Show Settings checkbox to automatically bring up the study settings once it has been loaded

  3. Enter license key

    Type or paste your software license key into the License Key input

  4. Activate the license

    Select Activate from the Action list and press Apply
    If you have a valid software license, you will see the License Status change to Activated and the license Expiry Date and Licensed To fields populate with the information relevant to your software license subscription

  5. Remove the emoji License Manager custom study from your chart

    Right-click the chart, select Studies, highlight the emoji License Manager in the Studies to Graph window, select Remove then OK to close the Chart Studies window.

For day-to-day usage of the emoji Free Indicator Sampler you will not need to access the emoji License Manager again unless you wish to:

  • deactivate the license on the current computer to activate it on a different computer (see below)

Deactivation

  • If you do not have an open chart, open an existing chart
  • Add the emoji License Manager custom study to the chart using Analysis>Studies>Add Custom Study
    • You will find this as the first study within the emoji trading Free Indicator Sampler
    • Select the Show Settings checkbox to automatically bring up the study settings once it has been loaded
  • Select Deactivate from the Action list and press Apply
  • You will see the License Status change to Deactivated and the license Expiry Date and Licensed To fields will go blank
  • You can now remove the emoji License Manager custom study from your chart.

A deactivated, expired or invalid software license will still function however the unlicensed indicators will display limited output.

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